BANGALORE, INDIA: New-age cameras should come out of traditional technologies and adopt next generation ideas to demonstrate innovation, feels Dr Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and Co-director, Center for Future Storytelling.
 
Speaking at a plenary session, 'Digital Imaging' at EmTech 2010 here, he dwelt upon on the future of cameras and imaging. Raskar started with an example of early '1990s when Nikon and Kodak collaborated to launch digital cameras. Raskar informed that the new camera had a digital sensor on the rear of the camera, while the rest of the specification were the same.

He added, over the years the digital cameras have evolved but still carry the legacy of traditional/old cameras.
 
Raskar emphasized that the new-age cameras should demonstrate that innovation and not the transition that happened so far. He defined the present transition from film to digital cameras like opening the cage of the lion, where the lion continues to follow almost the same lifestyle it followed inside the cage.
 
He added that new-age cameras should go step ahead in filing more in darkness, getting just the line art than image etc.